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Entries from July 2004

Official UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

July 30th, 2004 · No Comments

Thanks to Philocrites for sending me after this page: Official UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Home Page.

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Desolation Island

July 29th, 2004 · No Comments

Patrick O’Brian. Number five, and finally (almost) a cliffhanger. Certainly a story that ends with all sorts of loose ends, which I trust will be tied up eventually.

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The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa

July 21st, 2004 · No Comments

Mick Brown. In some ways a rather odd biography. Written by a British journalist who also wrote a biography of Richard Branson and the seemingly pop-culture Spiritual Tourist, this book reports myriad miracles (ancient and contemporary) in such a neutral, journalistic tone that the author seems credulous, yet also recounts interviews with antagonists on all [...]

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The Mauritius Command

July 17th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Patrick O’Brian. I started this oh-so-long ago, but a whole slew of library books intervened. Another fine entry in the series.

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Walk Worthy of Your Calling: Quakers and the Traveling Ministry

July 15th, 2004 · No Comments

Edited by Margery Post Abbott and Peggy Senger Parsons. Finally finished reading the whole thing. I like how Jan and my chapter fits in. Here are selections I read at a booksigning at the Friends General Conference Gathering last week.
Kenneth Sutton, USA: I experience my public ministry largely as an elder. As such, it is [...]

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Inspiring story

July 12th, 2004 · No Comments

A news story from the Star-Telegram: Pastor’s gift brings whites, blacks together via The Revealer.

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Revelation Space

July 1st, 2004 · 1 Comment

Alastair Reynolds. Only 300 pages (of 476), so not a finished book, but I’m finished with it. An involving space opera, but then I was reading along very late at night, and I was curious, so I went skimming along to the end, reading a paragraph here, a paragraph there, and I decided that the [...]

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